October 17, 1955. Capitol Records releases Ernie Ford's 52nd single; the A-Side: a bluesed-up arrangement of the Bob Merrill / Terry Shand hit, "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry". On the B-Side, an original from songwriter Merle Travis that Capitol resisted releasing; a song that J. Edgar Hoover called 'blatantly Marxist'. A song many believed might mean the end of Ernie Ford's career. A song put on the B-Side in the hopes it would quickly disappear. It was called 'Sixteen Tons'. Hard-core rec

On this day, The Wailers recorded Capitol Sessions ‘73 at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA on the Burnin’ Tour! #todayinbobslife After being asked to leave Sly & The Family Stone’s tour for upstaging them show after show, the band was left stranded in the middle of the U.S. and decided to head west to make the most of the journey. They end up booking a handful of shows in San Francisco at The Matrix Club, and then head down to LA for a series of studio sessions at Capitol Records Studios. This o